Binding of Agents into Larger Selves

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• What is the boundary of self and how do Selves change during an agent's lifetime?question0.777
• What are the natural limits on an agent's sphere of concern, and can these limits be systematically expanded?question0.754
• The boundary between agent and environment is not a physical object discovered in the world but a modelling choiceclaim0.741
  Established via Zanardi (2002) and the Hamiltonian decomposition argument in §2.1; foundational for the emptiness formalisation
• Selves can be nested and overlapping, cooperating and competing both laterally and across levels.claim0.741
  Key TAME claim that biological systems are patchworks of agents, with higher Selves deforming option spaces for lower ones.
• Stress, as a systemic response to distance from setpoint states, serves as the glue of agency, binding subunits into higher Selves.claim0.739
  Stress propagation through gap junctions recruits distant cells to act cooperatively.
• Evidencing the boundary that would constitute the agent as an entity separate from their environment is provably impossible.claim0.738
  Central thesis: the self-environment cut cannot be self-evidencing.
• What Defines The Boundaries Of A Cognitive Agentquestion0.738
• separability of agent and environmentconcept0.735
  The idea that the agent can be distinguished as an entity separate from its environment.